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the what u saw at the gym TODAY thread

As one of these PT's who doesn't even lift, today I saw one of my female clients deadlift a little more than her bodyweight with reasonable form (wasn't keeping the bar against her legs, but her back was set and she had a good setup and lockout) for an easy set of 5. This was her third time doing deadlifts. This evening, I saw my other two female clients overcoming the fear girls everywhere have of barbells as they learned barbell box squats, bench press and block pulls. Finished them off with some hex bar carries, which will help them manage their diet tomorrow, because you can't consume too many calories if you can't lift food to your face.
 
I think it's more the macho attitude of most dudes in the free weights sections of gyms. If I was a chick, it would be pretty daunting training around a group of guys grunting away. I would though, just to show all the lucky legs dudes up... And wear a "I squat more than you bench bro" singlet ;)
 
I thought that grunting would be interpreted by women as a mating call. Fuck I can't believe I have been doing it wrong, wondering why they desert the joint when I rock up and deadlift in the middle of their bosu group sessions.
 
In most peice of shit commercial gyms I can see why women are intimidated by the free weights section. Every commie gym ive ever visisted while travelling has one or two of those "im awesome" fuckwits.

I love lifting in those gyms. Especially on deadlift day.

Tim.
 
If you really wanted to you could get your cert 3 in fitness - (which means you could work on the gym floor (Not PT) - still write programs for ppl etc) - in a day or 2 - I know a gym owner who needed the cert 3 so he could open his gym and he completed the course online over 1 weekend - the PT course if done online if you really smashed it out could prob be completed in a week or 2.

Face to face it took me 3 months.
 
that's about the long and the short of most popular Cert 3/4 qualifications these days, at least in Vic. Yeah you can get one from a dodgy RTO in a weekend or 1 day etc, but it won't be to the same standard as doing a Cert 3 at a TAFE.
 
I did it at TAFE, and it was a semester (about 18 weeks) each for Cert 3 and Cert 4, another full year for Diploma. A lot of private courses are about 12 weeks for Cert 3+4 combined. I've heard of some people getting it all online in about 2 weeks. A single weekend is crazy.
 
In a face-to-face course you do. I guess online courses have some other method of assessment. I think you'd definitely get more out of having to do real life instruction than just demonstrating an understanding of the theory.
 
To be honest if you have any understanding of training you wont really learn much from a PT course - it is very "general knowledge" style stuff - alot of the time it is simply to have a bit of paper so you can work in the industry - if you go into the course thinking you will learn how to train people and develop programs then your prob in the wrong industry or need a few more years training yourself....

Lets be honest though the average working life of a PT is 3 months before they move onto something else - so that sort of tells you something...
 
These 2 asian chicks.
Both wearing tights and singlets and insane bodies.
If you were to touch you thumbs toghether and extend the pikys out, to form the go / no go fuck gauage, you'd fit not one but both of them b/w them. Both had perky round arses too, tits a little on the small side, but it goes with the territory.
Hope they do porn in the near future. :)
 
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